Sophia Pathways™

GUARANTEE

Students enrolled and in good standing at a Featured Partner Institution who successfully complete a transfer-eligible Sophia course and do not receive transfer credit may contact Sophia by email: learningcoach@sophia.org or phone: 1-800-341-0327 to receive a full refund for your Sophia course fee.

A. Guarantee: If you have satisfactorily completed a transfer-eligible SOPHIA course ("SOPHIA Course") and you are a student in good standing at a Featured Partner Institution ("Partner Institution") and have been identified to the Partner Institution as a SOPHIA student, the following guarantee applies: SOPHIA guarantees that if you satisfy all the conditions stated in Section 2.B you will receive transfer credit at Partner Institution for your completed SOPHIA Course. The SOPHIA Course transfer credit will be for the specified Partner Institution course or content area as listed and matched on the SOPHIA.org webpage for that specific Partner Institution. If, after attempting to transfer your completed SOPHIA Course into a Partner Institution, the Partner Institution does not issue you transfer credit for the SOPHIA Course and you contact SOPHIA within sixty (60) days of receiving that transfer rejection, SOPHIA will refund your SOPHIA course fee. This guarantee does not include any promise that you will be granted admission to a Partner Institution or that the list of Partner Institutions will remain constant.

B. Conditions: The following conditions must be met in order to be eligible for a refund of your SOPHIA course fee:

You must have satisfactorily completed at least one (1) transfer-eligible SOPHIA course.

You must be enrolled as a student in good standing at a Partner Institution. Admissions decisions are at each Partner Institution’s sole discretion.

You must be attempting to transfer a SOPHIA Course to a current Partner Institution. This guarantee only applies to the Partner Institutions listed on SOPHIA.org website as of the time of transfer.

This guarantee only applies to the SOPHIA Courses as listed and matched with each Partner Institution’s course or content area on the SOPHIA.org webpage for the Partner Institution.

You must apply for the SOPHIA course fee refund within sixty (60) days of receiving notification from the Partner Institution that it will not accept transfer credit for the completed SOPHIA course.

All about ACE CREDIT®

The American Council on Education’s (ACE) College Credit Recommendation Service
(ACE CREDIT)® has evaluated and recommended college credit for
thirty
of SOPHIA's courses.
For more than 30 years, colleges and universities have trusted ACE CREDIT to provide reliable course equivalency information to facilitate their decisions to award academic credit.

All About DEAC CREDIT

The Distance Education Accreditation Commission (DEAC) has approved all 15 Sophia's courses for Approved Quality Curriculum (AQC) status. For more than 89 years, DEAC has operated as a national accreditor of distance education institutions and was the first to establish a distinctive process for evaluating curriculum offered outside of the traditional academic domain of higher education institutions. The DEAC is recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation and the U.S. Department of Education as a reliable authority on quality assessment of distance education.

Sophia's Credit Transfer Service

Transferman is ready to leap into action! At no cost to you, Transferman will use his superpowers to find out if your credits will transfer to the school of your choice. Just tell him the course or courses you'd like to take and your preferred school, and he'll get you an answer fast. How super is that?

Transfer Institution List

Sophia students have been pre-approved for credit transfer, or had their Sophia courses accepted for credit by the following institutions.
This list is not intended as a guarantee of transfer.
Schools accept credit transfer on a case-by-case basis and decisions may vary by student and specific degree plan.
We recommend you download the course syllabus and ask your school to review it for pre-approval of transfer credit.
Please contact the Sophia Learning Coaches for more information on credit transfer.